Posts Tagged ‘Cats of Old New York’

1886: The Cat Farm at “The Ship” on NYC’s Hamilton Street

Posted: 30th November 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories
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Mary Miner was a proverbial crazy cat lady who lived with about 50 cats in a small, dingy room on Hamilton Street. The room was one of many in a ramshackle tenement called The Ship, a building on the Lower East Side with an interesting history dating back to the 1700s.

1925: Spark Plug, the Feisty Feline of Brooklyn’s Stagg Street Police Station

Posted: 28th September 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Mascots, Cat Stories
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When the police began incarcerating stray cats in the jail cells at the Stagg Street station, their mascot cat was none too pleased to share his home with the mongrel intruders. He was willing to put up a good fight to preserve his domain.

1927: Nickie, the NYPD Motorcycle Squad Cat Who Obeyed Traffic Signals

Posted: 27th August 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Feline Mascots, NYPD Mascots
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The new electric traffic lights on 4th Avenue in Brooklyn were confusing to some motorists and pedestrians. But not to Nickie, the black cat of Motorcycle Squad No. 2 adjoining the former 18th Precinct police station on the southwest corner of 4th Avenue and 43rd Street in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park.

1884: Tabby, the Staten Island Cat of Eltingville Set Out to Sea for 9 Days

Posted: 20th August 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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Although she lived through three storms while at sea in a small rowboat, Tabby the cat never lost even one of her nine lives during her nine days in the Sandy Hook Bay.

1944: The Chimney Cat Rescue of West Farms

Posted: 27th July 2023 by The Hatching Cat in Cat Stories, Cats in the Mews
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In April 1944, an unnamed cat fell down the chimney of a six-story apartment building at 1973 Bryant Avenue in West Farms. For four days and nights, Rose Colgan, who lived on the first floor, listened to the poor cat cry behind a wall in her department. It took four days, but she finally decided to take action.

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